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�CR7 is 'a beast' but `real should fear Messi�
“I think they are two of the best players in the world, but out of the two of them I’ll go with Leo,” Alba said when asked which of the two players should be feared more during Sunday’s game at the Santiago Bernabeu. “I...
Correspondent 21 March 2014
Amend BFA constitution to avert chaos
  The constitution need not only accommodate the changes taking place in the association, but to safeguard the integrity and sanctity of the game. Already, we have seen Wonder Sporting changing their name to Police XI although it was obvious...
Dennis Keagile 21 March 2014
Bowling team faces budget constraints
  Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, John Gaborutwe told Mmegi Sport that the intention was to play some international matches before the Commonwealth Games, to be held in Glasgow in July. He said, despite that, players continue...
Calistus Kolantsho | 21 March 2014
World Cup pitch damaged
  The stadium, which has already staged two domestic games in Brazil in preparation for the World Cup, will host four matches during the tournament but, despite almost near completion structurally, faces a race against time to get its pitch to...
Calistus Kolantsho 21 March 2014
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Masitaoka fancy survival chances
Though the Molepolole side is propping up the standings with 15 points from 17 matches, the coach said they cannot be written off. Bolokwe said if they win the remaining matches, they will leapfrog, Black Peril (15 points), Mochudi...
Calistus Kolantsho | 21 March 2014
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Power cuts, rains hamper bowls preparations
The tournament is to be played in three games of 18 ends. For many bowlers, Obie Mosimanyane, Andre van der Walt and George Naik carry the hopes of the hosts. “Despite the challenges we have been facing in preparing for the games, I think we...
Shingirai Madondo 21 March 2014
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Rollers, GU stalemate leaves race open
  Rollers went into the match against GU without several key players due to injuries and suspensions. As expected, GU tried to capitalise on their opponents’ woes and pressed right from the start. They kept Rollers in their own area for...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 21 March 2014
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In the Friday paper
Shingirai Madondo 21 March 2014
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Moyo takes charge at Motlakase
Motlakase are looking for a coach to replace Oris Radipotsane, who surprisingly left the Premier League club for First Division side, Jwaneng Comets. Moyo was seen at Motlakase’s midweek game against Mochudi Centre Chiefs, which they lost...
Leornard Matota 21 March 2014
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Lovers face punishment for fixture failure
“It is true that we have charged Green Lovers FC for their failure to honor a scheduled match between them (Green Lovers) and TASC Confidence. The game was scheduled to be played in Francistown,” First Division North League chairperson,...
Shingirai Madondo 21 March 2014
Date set for BAA elections
The athletics body has been ordered to hold elections on March 29 to replace its dissolved committee.  The BAA plunged into crisis recently when a number of officials resigned to trigger the dissolution of the entire executive committee...
Mosah Mokganedi 21 March 2014
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Simanyana�s GU return hits snag
  Early this week, GU said the former Polokwane City midfielder would be available for selection for the game against BMC tomorrow.  However, Botswana Football Association (BFA) said yesterday there are outstanding formalities while FIFA...
Thato Kala 21 March 2014
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Diverse wears, dance and music in Khuis
Not only that, different types of traditional foods were on the menu during the day.  The food ranged from roasted and cooked maize, sweet reed, wild melons, dried pumpkin seeds, beans and assorted meat from Eland, cow and goat. The event,...
Zolani Kraai 21 March 2014
BancABC SME proposition targets smaller end
  In terms of turnover, BancABC says they consider business with a turnover of between P0 and P10 million as SMEs. At the launch of the bank’s SME value proposition on Wednesday in Gaborone, BancABC Managing Director,...
Boitshepo Majube 21 March 2014
BMC revives Zimbabwe cattle export deal
Plangt manager at the Maun abattoir Mothobi Mothobi told a press conference on Monday that 387 cattle were sent to Zimbabwe in January 2014.  Under the deal BMC exports 2,000 cattle monthly to Zimbabwe.  A total of 5,591 cattle were...
Boniface Keakabetse 21 March 2014
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Artists tell Swaneng story
The exhibition will be held under the theme Swaneng Stories, the Vision Lives On. The Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture, Shaw Kgathi will officially open it.  The exhibition is expected to showcase works of art from former and current...
Correspondent 21 March 2014
'Superpricing in supermarkets'
They made the mistake of leaving the price in Rand on the goods and adding a new price sticker with the Pula price. An item on sale in South Africa for R150 was selling here for P176. Once you take account of the difference rates of VAT in...
Correspondent 21 March 2014
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Meet Clex the puppet master
  Many know Motlhapisi ‘Clex’ Kaboyamodimo as the wise man that is always trying out new things.  But the majority of the people know him as the man who can make dolls dance. Puppetry shows may be an ancient form of theatre or...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 21 March 2014
Botswana ranks high in retail sector growth
This is despite the Botswana retail market increasingly getting saturated due to the mushrooming of many malls and entry of numerous international retailers. According to the influential 2014 A.T Kearney African Retail Development Index, Botswana...
Brian Benza 21 March 2014
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Preserve culture � Kgosi Lotlaamoreng II
Lotlaamoreng said this at a cultural day held at Khuis village, last Saturday. He cautioned that culture is disappearing due to various social developments sweeping through rural Botswana.  Batswana need to introspect and share with the world...
Zolani Kraai 21 March 2014
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Budulala reaches for the sky
The 22-year-old from Shoshong describes herself as an all rounder when it comes to art, and her creativity shows through her work. The young woman is currently involved in the art of crafts, and is an upcoming poet. Budulala tells Arts & Culture...
Maureen Odubeng | 21 March 2014
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Africa: The cradle of humankind? Part I & II
Being no doubt the least developed continent, two main things give us solace in Africa: firstly, the fact that we are very resource rich and, secondly, the widely-held concept that we are the “Cradle of Humankind”.  We all evolved...
L M Leteane 21 March 2014
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Lets Talk
L M Leteane 21 March 2014
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Wynter Mmolotsi: the grandson of politics
“Nothing in particular really ignited my interest in politics, save to say that I grew up exposed to politics,” the BMD Secretary General told Mmegi in an interview this week. From his primary school days, his grandfather, the late...
Ryder Gabathuse | 21 March 2014
Shebeen rules
Nobody ever tells you what they stand for, and you dare not ask for fear of revealing your ignorance.There are only three such abbreviations that I know and understand; OBE which is the Order of the British Empire, MBE which stands for Member of the...
Barolong Seboni 21 March 2014
Security needs
    When doing a mental assessment of the security needs of any country including our own, the first thing that should be brought to the fore is looking at the immediate threats to the security of the country. This should...
Barolong Seboni 21 March 2014
The spirit, the seal, the horse and the trumpet
Revelation is perhaps the most ill-understood book of the New Testament, mainly because people do not understand that the same events are repeatedly described using different images and symbols e.g. the First Spirit occurs in the same period as the...
Barolong Seboni 21 March 2014
Can Bakwena please rise
  This week saw the release of a report on the over 200 million Rand home for President Jacob Zuma at his home village of Nkandla. The adrenaline is high and everyone wants a piece of the President. Taxpayers want to know why their...
Barolong Seboni 21 March 2014
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�Yellow monster� threatens Monarch woman
Mosadisadi Didimalang, living with one child after being deserted by her live-in lover, related  her sad tale to Mmegi on Thursday. In an interview, she says she fears that her home will be bulldozed and she and her ailing daughter will be left...
Patricia Edwin 21 March 2014
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Mokaila, Raleru in contradiction spin
As they were trying to spin around the issue that has been bedeviling the nation for the past two weeks, the two contradicted each other. Mokaila briefed Parliament on Monday that the first unit would be added to the national grid before the end of...
Oarabile Mosikare 21 March 2014
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Tertiary students decry loadshedding
With only a few weeks before the semester ends, many university students are left wondering whether if they will fare any better in their examinations having not prepared in advance. Already the negative telltale effects of the acute loadshedding...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 21 March 2014
More BDP mekoko sprout in Francistown
  But yesterday, he said he will be a mekoko because he is unhappy with the way the party primaries were conducted. “There were a lot of irregularities at the primaries. “For example, members of my opponent’s campaign team...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho 21 March 2014
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School laboratories turn poisonous
Classes were suspended at Sedibelo Junior Secondary School in Mochudi yesterday after students and employees reacted to emissions from expired chemicals in the school laboratory. Since Tuesday, students have been ferried from the school to a local...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho 21 March 2014
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Judge flip-flops on own order
The order was made in the absence of a government legal team. However, immediately after the order was issued, government attorneys rushed to court and made an application for its rescission. In court yesterday, attorney Tshiamo Rantao representing...
Isaiah Morewagae 21 March 2014
Wild melon genes to fight drought
    This development is expected to improve the country’s food security and commercialisation. Assistant Minister of Agriculture Oreeditse Molebatsi this week told Parliament the technology could be used to enhance...
Isaiah Morewagae 21 March 2014
Parliamentary questions and answers
Reasons why the ministry could not update the community on what is going on given the delays and if the ministry is aware that lack of communication with the community causes lack of trust towards her ministry and the government. Response: Tsabong...
Isaiah Morewagae 21 March 2014
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Power crisis bad for business in Palapye
“We are also affected. We thought you in the city are better off. They just cut and do not even notify us about the power cuts.We run a sensitive service here of keeping corpses and we have to take care of them by making sure that the mortuary...
Thalefang Charles | 21 March 2014
Masisi
Masisi wants higher fuel levy
Speaking during the debate proposed budget for the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Masisi asked Parliament to consider an increase saying the current the fuel levy is a pittance. Minister Nonofo Molefhi had on Wednesday said his ministry...
Oarabile Mosikare 21 March 2014
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How they felt the pinch of power cuts
Informal sector Not only were the formal businesses affected, but informal businesses too were also hit hard.  Most informal businesses rely on the public lights to conduct their businesses. Without power there is no business for them.  It...
Boitshepo Majube 21 March 2014
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Cultural conflicts centre to the Morupule B debacle
Companies of all these uniquely diverse nationals have been engaged by Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) to deliver the P11.1 billion Morupule B Power Plant that has been delayed for years and still experiencing constant failures. The cultural...
Thalefang Charles | 21 March 2014
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A chronology of the power crisis
1998 - South Africa’s Eskom issues a white paper to neighbouring countries warning of probable power shortages starting in 2008. 2000 - The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and Eskom ink an eight-year supply deal to expire in December 2007 for...
Mbongeni Mguni | 21 March 2014
Botswana Power Crisis - BPC CEO Jacob Raleru speaks out
US experts jet into Morupule B blame-storm
And, the key parties at Morupule B – the Botswana Power Corporation and Chinese contractor, CNEEC – are already sparring over culpability for the boiler-related faults that have caused widespread economic losses from prolonged...
Lawrence Seretse 21 March 2014
Botswana ranks high in retail sector growth
This is despite the Botswana retail market increasingly getting saturated due to the mushrooming of many malls and entry of numerous international retailers. According to the influential 2014 A.T Kearney African Retail Development...
Lawrence Seretse 21 March 2014
Yields slide at P489m bond auction
  The auction, held on March 7, was part of the P15 billion Domestic Note Issuance Programme approved by Parliament in February 2011 to help finance the budget as well as maintain government presence in the domestic capital...
Lawrence Seretse 21 March 2014
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Tourism to generate P5.9bn in 2014
The WTTC is the foremost research and statistics authority on tourism, conducting annual economic assessments on 184 countries around the world. The WTTC’s annual Economic Impact Reports analyse current and historic performance of travel and...
Mbongeni Mguni | 21 March 2014
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The one plus one of finance matters
Business Week: Do you think NBFIRA Financial Literacy Week is going to benefit Batswana, if so explain in detail? Harriman: Yes, I think it really will. I think the more financial education we get the better. As a nation we are very often naive in...
Boitshepo Majube 21 March 2014
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Households change consumption patterns
Due to low domestic demand, retailers have also increased prices at a slower rate resulting in the prevailing low inflation environment. At the presentation of the group half-year results, Choppies CEO Ramachandran Ottapathu said consumers are no...
Boitshepo Majube 21 March 2014
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Why were there no phone calls from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
Many recall that when United Flight 93 was hijacked on September 11, 2001, passengers were able to make two cell phone calls during the flight's final moments. Several other calls were made using airphones. If metadata was detected from cell phones...
Correspondent 21 March 2014
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